A Critical Examination of the Life and Teachings of Mohammed #248879

The idea of a future existence, the product of a gradual develop ment — The idea of a future life among the Egyptians — the Jews — the Aryans-the Zoroastrians — The Jewish belief in a personal Messiah — The geal origin of this belief — The character of the Christian traditions — The strongly developed idea of an imme diate Kingdom of Heaven in the mind of Jesus and the early disciples — Paradise and Hell, according to the traditional words of J csus — The millenarian dream — How it has died away — The Islamic conception of a future existence — The parabolic character of many verses of the Koran — Progressive development, a necessity of human nature — The Koranic conception of present and future happiness — Notes. P. 263 to 287.